Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don—t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances… — Erich Hoeber Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined,… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and… — Lech Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Some suffer much from poverty and sickness, but are not humbled, and so they suffer without profit. But one who is humbled… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
I'm against divorce. I think the Bible teaches that divorce is wrong, but at the same time, I also believe that the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government -… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there.… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image